Thread: Book with no EPUB download option
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Old 01-21-2014, 10:52 PM   #54
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It kind of smells like there's some kind of issue between the Kobo store, ADEPT copy protection, and EPUB3 as a format, as if the Kobo site can only deliver its own non-ADEPT variety of DRM on EPUB3 books. At least I can download and read the book with the Kobo app...
Another Tuesday, another data point...

I just picked up Dirty Magic by Jaye Wells, ISBN 9780316228442. Since the last Orbit book I bought (the Tom Holt book released a couple of months ago, When It's a Jar) was an EPUB3 that gave me problems at Kobo and Diesel, I went to the Sony store for this one. That way, I could eliminate both the KEPUB and Nook oddities from the equation. The Sony store lists it as an Adobe DRM EPUB, and it did indeed download to my laptop through an ACSM file opened by ADE. A quick look at the OPF file verifies that yes, it's an EPUB3 book.

So, ADEPT and EPUB3 demonstrably get along fine. This is a Kobo-specific problem, not a universal tech issue.

This weekend, I should be able to get info on whether a certain self-pub book has DRM and which version of EPUB it was built as. If I'm correct that it's a DRM-free EPUB3, that should be the last nail in the coffin.
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